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18 Apr, 2016 Been There Done That – Pros Speak on Past WSOP Experiences

A number of Indian players have been visiting Vegas for the World Series for the past many years now and we spoke to some of them for their insights. Top pros on WSOP experiences Aditya Agarwal, Kolkata One of India’s most well-known pros, Aditya needs no introduction. The Team PokerSta...

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26 Mar, 2016 Intl Federation of Poker set to join SportAccord

Soon Poker will be a member of the SportAccord, an umbrella organisation for Olympic and non-Olympic games, according to an online magazine. Thanks to the International Federation of Poker(IFP) poker is heading towards the legitimacy that it deserves. The London-based IPF are hoping to ...

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01 Mar, 2016 Mukesh Surana wins IPC 30k Big Game; Krishna SM is Turbo winner

The 30k Big Game (Main Event) of the India Poker Championship (IPC) drew to a close late on Sunday night with Chennai’s Mukesh Surana emerging as champion. Surana toughed it out through a packed field of 196 players and over 19 hours of gameplay across this two day event. The Chennai re...

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18 Feb, 2016 Poker in Macau: Stay and Play Options

The Stay and Play series focuses on destinations within India and Asia for poker players to visit for tournament and cash game action. In our first installment we took at look at the options within India while our second feature gave insight into the Filipino capital of Manila which is ...

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11 Feb, 2016 Stars Poker room raided in Bengaluru; Series cancelled

The inaugural series at Stars Poker room which was later halted by the Bengaluru police It seems Bangalore is just unable to operate as a poker room friendly city. In news which broke yesterday evening, Bengaluru police raided the Stars Poker room in Indiranagar. At the time of the inci...

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15 May, 2015 Spartan Poker launches today

There is no denying the popularity of poker as a sport in India. While the poker landscape is a young one in the country, more and more players are taking to the game everyday playing in tournaments held in Goa or Bangalore or even Asia. For those who wish to skip on all that traveling,...

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23 Mar, 2015 Analysing the Impact of IPC January

As 2014 was coming to a close, the live tournament scene in Goa was looking a bit bleak. There hadn’t been a big tournament held in many months and even the ones touted as the next big thing heralding the revival of the Goa tournament circuit fizzled away without much fanfare. So when i...

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08 Sep, 2013 Gau Yang wins inaugural IPC Colombo

Gau Yang from China emerged victorious at the INR 25,000 Main Event of IPC Colombo late on Sunday evening. When play ended on Day 1 the previous night at just past midnight, Yang was sitting comfortably on a stack of 53,200 good enough for 3rd chip leader going into Day 2’s final table....

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There are many tournaments that are taking place across various poker platforms. Both Indian and international poker platforms are offering some high value tournaments for poker players, both for pros and newbies. Tournaments series like India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) and Final Table Series are very well-known in the Indian poker circuit. Poker players always look forward to participating in these tournament series as they offer massive guarantees. The poker game as we all know is a very thrilling one.

Aspiring poker players look for poker games through which they can get some great learnings. Online poker took prominence after live tournaments came to a halt due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Online poker news generated had players winning big in these online poker tournaments. All the poker platforms across the globe had to adapt to the new online poker system, owing to the pandemic. Now, everyone who is enthusiastic about poker will play poker online, and will wait till live tournaments are held more frequently.

Good news is that some international poker brands have slowly steadily kick-started getting the live poker tournaments rolling. Many poker players are eagerly looking forward to seeing what the live tournaments feel like in a post lockdown era. The poker news fraternity is also looking forward to covering some action packed poker tournaments.

Poker news is also covered with respect to some major business happenings across the globe. Be it mergers or acquisitions, these business deals include massive money. Readers are intrigued to know how the global poker scene is shaping up with these business deals. The poker platforms are expanding their bases, and gradually adding more value for the players as well.

Poker news is read widely, and makes for some interesting read as well. Poker new sites also cover in-depth analysis of some high value tournaments that are hosted globally. Many poker players take these poker news stories as their study material on a regular basis. Poker news is all the more important as it tells you, which poker platform or poker player is making headlines. The growth of the poker scene, both national and international becomes very crucial to track. 

In India there are some poker platforms that always make headlines. Poker rooms like Spartan Poker, PokerBaazi, Adda52, Natural8, Calling Station, PokerStars India, 9stacks among others always get covered due to the popularity aspect and how poker players flock their sites to play poker.

Poker news also comes from players venturing into different arenas like poker commentary, live-streaming and poker coaching. Many veteran poker players in India have taken to poker coaching as it gives them immense joy to coach budding poker players. Poker news comes from poker tournaments which have an underdog winning poker tournaments that nobody expected. The poker news is always thrilling to read as it covers the complete low down of what went down on various poker felts.

Online poker is also expanding its wings. Earlier poker players preferred the live poker set-up. But, due to the pandemic lockdown, players had to adapt to the regular online poker tournaments. There are many poker sites in India and abroad who are competing daily with each other to make sure that poker news is disseminated quickly and regularly to millions of readers out there.

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Talking about poker news and its importance it is crucial to also look at the legality of the poker game. States like Goa and Sikkim are allowed to have casinos and the union territory of Daman. While other states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana do not allow online poker. State governments have the right to construct the legislations for their respective states. The legislations are different in various states.

Even after the Supreme Court defining clearly what is a game of chance and what is a game of skill, the state governments have gone ahead to put in place the legislation as per their will. The final ruling to allow or disallow online gaming stays with the head of state. There has been a lot of furore about the state governments making different rulings. The operators in the online gaming industry have specifically voiced their displeasure. In states where online poker is allowed, the online poker platforms have witnessed growth in terms of user base and revenue state the news reports.

Many poker platforms in the country have been steadily witnessing growth as more and more people come on board. The poker tournaments have seen their advertised prize pools getting crushed. The poker fanatics across the country are heavily participating in online poker tournaments. The poker community in India is growing and the number of professional poker players is also seeing a sharp rise. The Indian poker community is making headlines with their winnings and achievements and poker platforms too are making sure that players get a best-in-class experience while playing the poker game.